Chapter 31
“Malachi!”
I dove for the gully with no plan beyond saving my cousin from imminent destruction. Meanwhile, my wolf was still counting down the seconds, our leeway now reaching its bitter end. Three, she told me. Two, one....
“Malachi, come back!” I yelled, even as my belly hit the dirt and my hips began wriggling beneath the fence after him.
Only I was moving in the wrong direction, not forward but rather back. My head thunked against the wires as I emerged on the same side from which I’d started, Sebastien’s hands clamped down around my bare ankles.
Then the world exploded all around us.
From within my mate’s protective embrace, I could barely make out the rain of sharp-edged shrapnel that cascaded toward the fence, most falling harmlessly back into the devastated compoun
